Dealbook Online

By MARK SCOTT and MICHAEL J. de la MERCED

Published: April 12, 2013

INSIDER VIEW As Jamie Dimon, below, puts the final touches on JPMorgan Chase’s latest earnings report, scheduled to be published on Friday, the bank’s own analysts are raining on his parade.

In a report on the global investment banking industry, the firm’s analysts cut right to the chase: many of the world’s largest investment banks are likely to offer investors paltry returns for the rest of the decade. MARK SCOTT

DROPPING A FIGHT The most outspoken opponents of T-Mobile USA’s bid for MetroPCS are backing off following an improvement in the takeover offer’s terms.

Both Paulson & Company and P. Schoenfeld Asset Management indicated on Thursday that they would support the revised proposal by T-Mobile’s parent, Deutsche Telekom. Under the provisions of the new offer, the combined company would cut the amount of debt it would assume by about $3.8 billion, and the interest rate on those borrowings would fall by about half a percentage point. MICHAEL J. de la MERCED

COST-CUTTING Citigroup agreed on Thursday to sell its consumer banking business in Turkey to the local lender DenizBank in its latest move to offload international assets.

DenizBank will acquire assets worth around $650 million and customer deposits totaling $800 million, according to a company statement. The sale is part of a plan by Citigroup’s new chief executive, Michael L. Corbat, above, to cut yearly costs by $1.1 billion by 2014. MARK SCOTT

DEPARTURE A senior executive at the Royal Bank of Scotland’s Japanese investment banking unit is expected to resign in the wake of a rate-rigging scandal, according to a person with direct knowledge of the matter.

Ryusuke Otani, chief executive of RBS Securities Japan, will probably step down by the end of the week, the person said. MARK SCOTT